Khalil Walji

Capacity development specialist
FAO

Khalil Walji works as capacity development specialist within FAO’s Forestry Department where he focuses on a wide range of topics from People and Forests to Ecosystem restoration monitoring. He works on the FAO project “Mitigation potential of global actions to enhance forest carbon stocks,” funded by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Japan, and he is a member of the coordination team for Monitoring Task Force. Khalil holds a master’s in Integrated studies of Land and Food Systems with a focus on nitrogen cycling and a bachelor’s in Natural Resources Conservation with a focus on forests, both from the University of British Columbia.